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jpomykalaon Vercel Edge Middleware: Dynamic at the speed of static

It’s a bit more expensive but only god knows where it runs*

jpomykalaon GitHub Copilot is generally available

It’s not worth $10/mo. I wouldn’t even pay $5/mo. Usually, it generates code with incorrect logic what is sometimes hard to notice.

It’s also awful that they took free code (open-source), and now they want money for it. Make it open-source and free to use…

Some say it’s great for repetitive tasks, but if you write repetitive code (tests also) maybe you should look for other solutions than “auto-generating” unmaintainable code.

jpomykalaon Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)

I’m wonder who is the target audience for that? How fun is self-hosting note taking app.

jpomykalaon Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

Why this is modern? Because there a gradient on landing page?

jpomykalaon Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

KingdomCome 2

jpomykalaon Stackit: Cloud and Colocation

I also worked with people from Schwarz and some smaller company who manages some business data. It's going to be a disaster. I'm not even surprised that you need to 'Get in touch'. They do pretty many things manually and simply wrong. Client is processing large Excel file for 4 days? Somebody simply kills the job and the whole process starts again. Big words, cheap execution.

jpomykalaon Stackit: Cloud and Colocation

Electricity availability: 99.98% / month

jpomykalaon Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software

It works, because a few times I was surprised that paid in euro instead dollars.

jpomykalaon Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software

"I need to increase my prices" /s

Or start charging in Euro :D

jpomykalaon Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software

https://simplelocalize.io

jpomykalaon Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software

https://simplelocalize.io

jpomykalaon Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription Software

I’m running a super simple translation management system where people can manage, host, auto-translate their translation files. How I supposed to run my app without subscriptions?

In last 30 days, I transferred over 280 GB of translation data from my service to end-users around the word. Should I tell DeepL, Google and AWS that they should offer me their services for free or what?

EDIT:

I apologize if this sounds too passive-aggressive, but I'm tired of hearing that subscriptions are bad. Thanks to subscription model, we can have many smaller service providers who simply have fun from working on something (like me). If you think that giving someone $5/mo for a cool app is too much, then okay. You don't have to do it, no deal. ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯

PS Great example of solo-developer is the InkDrop creator. He is working on this note-taking app since ~2016. https://www.inkdrop.app

jpomykalaon Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned

https://placeflare.com

I wanted to gather cool and unpopular places from a neighborhood, like old castles. I started this project in 2015 and I’m still maintaining it, and from time to time I’m doing fixes.

What I learned?

Technical: SPA got terrible SEO, only a few crawlers executes JS on page to actually read data from the page (or at least show the place image instead the app image from og:image) I tried many times to add some pre-rendering and make it hybrid, but I failed. Eventually, I converted app to NextJS and I added dynamic og:images (using my other project: https://bannerly.io) and number of impressions and clicks increased mostly thanks to sharing places by people on social media. I also plan to use no-code automation tool (probably https://integromat.com it’s cheaper than Zapier and probably more powerful) to post places to Instagram every day.

There is no money/revenue in this project but I like to play around with it anyway. It would be cool earn at least for maintenance costs on it but I don’t have any idea. I was thinking about selling tickets online for places where the tickets are required but no one is interested in this idea.

Non-technical: There is a very small subset of people who would like to use travel apps. It’s easier to use Google or local guides to find great destinations.

jpomykalaon Log4j RCE Found

“Also, we can't be sure about whole scenario. There're reports that indicates this RCE is still possible in 2.15+ RCs builds, so there is a chance there are also other gateways to achieve the same effect.”

jpomykalaon Log4j RCE Found

„ Also, we can't be sure about whole scenario. There're reports that indicates this RCE is still possible in 2.15+ RCs builds, so there is a chance there are also other gateways to achieve the same effect.”

jpomykalaon Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)

Years ago, I also needed to make an estimation, so I simply described which functionalities will be available in each week. I also added a 2 weeks margin to polish everything at the end of the planned deadline, and it worked great. The client was happy because he could see the progress every week, and I was happy because I was on time with everything. During the polishing phase, we were meeting every day to make sure everything is adjusted or fixed properly.

jpomykalaon I analyzed SaaS billing dark patterns

I think we are on the same boat. How to do detect abusing the service?

jpomykalaon I analyzed SaaS billing dark patterns

“Free trials should not require a credit card.” I have a small project where I allow people to auto-translate their web and mobile applications. I’m using Google Translate and DeepL for translating texts from language to another. DeepL charges me $20 for every 500k translated characters. What I supposed to do? I’m getting a bit pissed off because I spotted multiple accounts who registered for the highest plan, used the whole auto-translation quota and quit without paying. Sometimes, users just misbehaving, and this is the reason why there are some dark patterns. Personally, I don’t use any. If you are looking for some decent i18n platform, try SimpleLocalize.io

jpomykalaon 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

Try to stay longer on an idea than a few weeks.

jpomykalaon ‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Google Earth Algorithm

As a programmer, I must say I really enjoyed the movie.

jpomykalaon What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?

„commit on the first day”

jpomykalaon IMGZ – Paid image sharing

You said, no support. Why do you even care? F*k this guy. Delete his account. /s

jpomykalaon You may not need Moment.js

Ya, but testing dates and times is very hard. It’s easy to miss something.

jpomykalaon TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

I feel the same. Recommendations are as simple on youtube as “get top 10 videos in your country”

jpomykalaon Strange domain names that developers bought

I bought “Format18.io” for my https://SimpleLocalize.io project. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format18

jpomykalaon DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components

You are trying to solve problems which were created by Tailwind, and you end up with Bootstrap.

jpomykalaon Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?

https://github.com/simplelocalize/simplelocalize-cli

Uploading & downloading translations

jpomykalaon Nodes.io – A new way to create with code

Maybe weird shapes is the future of web? Forget about JS and React. This is future old man.

jpomykalaon Zero Data App

Zero data apps are great because in most cases you can just move your data to any other service provider. I’m leading a service where I’m trying to emphasize that vendor-agnostic solutions are a fair deal for a customer and provider.

jpomykalaon Offbase: Static site generator in a browser

What is wrong with Jekyll and Github Pages?